People born in the 50's have lived in seven decades, two centuries, and two millenniums. We had the best music, fastest cars, drive-in theaters, soda fountains, the internet and Happy Days. And we're not even that old yet. We're just that cool.

Great Falls Development Authority Top 15 for 12/28/14Here's the GFDA Top 15 for the last two weeks, celebrating great things happening to move Great Falls Forward! On Tuesday, we'll email you our Top 10 for 2014 and then next Sunday our Top 10 for what's in the works for 2015.

Young Montana entrepreneur learning business at early age"The Million Girl Army is a new thing that encourages a million girls from the United States to help girls in Third World countries who don't have as much as we do," Kodi pointed out. "I'm hoping to do it a lot longer and for it to expand and to do it over the summer and maybe next year."

Life in the afterglow of TED-talk fameWhy should the results of someone's research be confined to academic journals and 100-person lecture halls when there's a whole world of Internet users eager to hear about them?

Faced with too few physicians, California offers free medical schoolThe University of California Riverside Medical School will offer five full-ride scholarships to students who agree to stay in the area for five years after they graduate and choose primary care rather than more lucrative specialty fields such as radiology and anesthesiology.

Firefighter's BADAxx needs funding for productionThe BADAxx Kickstarter campaign will run through Jan. 9. Contributors can earn perks, including T-shirts and a BADAxx donation to their hometown fire department, by giving certain amounts, from $5 to $2,050. To watch a video demonstration of the BADAxx, or to contribute, visit http://kck.st/1yQRqaf.

Driving Your Startup With Fear Has Bad ConsequencesTrying to be a business leader by instilling fear in your employees and partners is never a good approach, but it is particularly devastating in a startup. Yet I see this approach used all too often by new entrepreneurs, most of whom are not natural tyrants, but who are fighting to mask their own internal fears and insecurities about starting a business.

Yahoo prodigy Nick D'Aloisio ponders future"There's lots of kids who are very good coders and programmers now. What was striking about him was he was driven by the vision of the product he wanted to put in users' hands. That was impressive, frankly, for a 16-and-a-half-year-old kid."